[Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Release 4.1: Schedule, scope and review focus

[Shyam Ranganathan]

On 04/11/2018 09:07 AM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> On 03/27/2018 02:59 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As we have completed potential scope for 4.1 release (reflected here [1]
>> and also here [2]), it's time to talk about the schedule.
>>
>> - Branching date (and hence feature exception date): Apr 16th
> 
> We are about 5 days away from branching, now would be a good time to
> think which features are slipping and call them out sooner than later!

Branching has been postponed to May 1st, to accommodate the following
changes that we determined as required in the maintainers meeting
(primary owners in brackets),
- formatting change to the code base to clang [Nigel]
- github flag enforcement for all features (doc and spec requirement) [amar]
- Attempt to get experimental xlators package [Shyam]

Thanks Jiffin and Poornima for requesting additional time for your
features, due to this change you are granted an automatic extension :)

Others, if your features make it by the cut-off date it will be
included, we will not have a further extension around the 1st of May for
features that have NOT made it yet!

> 
>> - Week of Apr 16th release notes updated for all features in the release
>> - RC0 tagging: Apr 23rd
>> - Week of Apr 23rd, upgrade and other testing
>> - RCNext: May 7th (if critical failures, or exception features arrive late)
>> - RCNext: May 21st
>> - Week of May 21st, final upgrade and testing
>> - GA readiness call out: May, 28th
>> - GA tagging: May, 30th
>> - +2-4 days release announcement
>>
>> and, review focus. As in older releases, I am starring reviews that are
>> submitted against features, this should help if you are looking to help
>> accelerate feature commits for the release (IOW, this list is the watch
>> list for reviews). This can be found handy here [3].
>>
>> So, branching is in about 4 weeks!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shyam
>>
>> [1] Issues marked against release 4.1:
>> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/milestone/5
>>
>> [2] github project lane for 4.1:
>> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1#column-1075416
>>
>> [3] Review focus dashboard:
>> https://review.gluster.org/#/q/starredby:srangana%2540redhat.com
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